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Show Personnel Ready State Session In a continuing effort to prioritize concerns all over the state so that Utah State University will be able to better serve the public through its Extension Service, meetings will be held April 12 and 13 at USU in Logan. Extension Service Community Development Director Wes Maughn has invited Wayne Banks, Escalante to chair the committee on community development at the conference. Also attending will be John Woodruff, Panguitch City Police, who will participate further in 4-H and Youth committee decisions. Extension service representatives from USU along with Garfield County Extension Agent Verl Matthews and extension Home Economist Debbie Proctor met with community leaders from all over Garfield County on February 24 at Bryce Valley High School to prioritize Garfield County's concerns in several areas. The main thrust of the meeting according to Matthews was to make the Cooperative Extension Service more accountable to the people and similar meetings are taking place on a nationwide basis. Five major concerns in each of five areas were identified. The main areas were agriculture, community development, family life, 4-H and youth, and life-span learning. Several representatives were selected to attend the March 9 meeting in Cedar City where representatives of each of the five counties comprising the Five County association of Governments met to repeat the prioritization of concerns. Attending the March 9 Five County meeting in Cedar City were Verl Matthews, Banks Woodruff, Marie Listen and Reva Lowder. Two people were selected from each county to represent their county at the statewide meeting to be held at USU where the entire group will once again repeat the process of selecting the major concerns, resulting in a list of concerns which USU hopes to be able to address through its Extension Service program, By focusing on concerns which have evolved through the prioritization process from grass roots levels, USU expects to be able to give attention to local needs far more effectively. Banks said that Dr. Maughn indicated that Governor Scott Matheson will send representatives from the state's Division of Community and Economic Development to learn first-hand what participants in the community development committee see as the state's most important neH |